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...only are zoo managers concerned with the care of their charges, they are also concerned that the zoo, as an institution for research, education and preservation, is becoming as endangered as some of the animals it houses. Financial support has dropped, and costs keep climbing. Rising too is a clamor from critics who claim that zoos are no better than prisons, designed for the amusement of mindless gawkers. The more militant activists want to shut zoos down altogether...
Tomas Maier Recently discovered that many of the clients who clamor for his handwoven leather bags and luggage also want the furniture that's sold in Bottega Veneta flagship stores. So he asked the carpenter who makes the hard-case luggage to construct a few small pieces. The result is an entire line of furniture that will be sold exclusively at Bottega Veneta stores. The 20 styles?from a simple side table or small dining table to a python-skin bookcase?can be custom-ordered in a wide range of materials. "When we started the line, we thought about furniture...
...never felt attractive or desired before. No other students had ever noticed me, except to clamor for my help with science labs. But now...now, people who had never talked to me were coming up to say hi. As the jocks cruised the halls, they gave me the chin-jut ‘hey’ traditionally reserved for the elect few...I couldn’t stop smiling...
...rational as the new requirement would be, I fear that far too many undergraduates will view it as just another hoop to jump through. For all that we clamor for more faculty advising, more peer advising, more concentration and pre-concentration advising, we are remarkably unresponsive when such opportunities do arise. A sizeable percentage of Harvard students show up to their semiannual advising sessions merely to collect a signature for their study card...
...about the various forces that led to Summers’ resignation. Where faculty members see a tyrant dismissive of their work and opinions, students see a leader who seems genuinely interested in their lives. When professors recoil at the sight of Larry Summers signing dollar bills, undergraduates clamor for more autographs. To faculty, Summers is an arrogant power-broker; to students, he is an accessible celebrity. After all, this is a man who visits the Houses, dances to hip hop at first-year social events, and fools around on the sidelines of home football games. More substantively, he has launched...